From 12th – 13th September 2011, Ambassador Nguyen Quoc Cuong visited Chicago. At the meetings with Vietnam’s ambassador to the U.S. Nguyen Quoc Cuong, many businesses and universities in Chicago, the largest city in the Midwestern United States, expressed their interest in further cooperation with Vietnam.

A Vietnamese contemporary fine arts exhibition opened on Sept. 9 in Washington D.C. Among those present at the opening ceremony of the exhibition, hosted by the Arts Club of Washington, were Vietnam 's Ambassador to the US Nguyen Quoc Cuong and many members of the Vietnamese Embassy in Washington D.C.

At the National Day event in Washington , DC on the 1st Sept 2011, US Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Francisco Sanchez has confirmed the growing importance of his country’s relations with Vietnam , “ Vietnam is one of the markets we most want to do business with,” Sanchez said.

On 30th September 2011, Ambassador Nguyen Quoc Cuong met with several Emergency Committee for American Trade (ECAT) at a breakfast at the Hay Adams Hotel at the latter’s invitation for the first time since his arrival in the US.

Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Nguyen Quoc Cuong took a working visit to Kansas where the Vietnamese community of more than 40,000 people are living, working and studying.
Meeting with a number of the Vietnamese families there, the Ambassador gladly shared achievements the overseas Vietnamese gained and wished them have a good life. He asserted the Vietnamese Government’s policy of supporting them.